relative vs absolute

[Kysmiley]

Which is better to use relative or absolute paths for links to pages with-in your own site and to images or files, when it comes to pages, search engines. I know for optimasation relative is better as it redues page size but is this at a cost of somthing else.
Pat

[supermanjnk]

depends on your directory structure, if it's a deep structure and you have links that go deep in it might be better to use absolute paths, that way you don't have to do ../../../../../pages/whatever/thispage/whatever.html
you could simply do /pages/whatever/thispage/whatever.html

assuming that pages is in the root of your site.

[MatthewHSE]

I prefer the "relative from root" method:

/members/images/icons/baseball.gif

[rocknbil]

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